On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > Generally, packages are compiled for the same processor generation as the > corresponding Python. > But not always -- e.g. NumPy opted for SSE2 even for Py2 to work around some > compiler bug > (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/6428). > I was bitten by that at an old machine once and found out that there is no > way for `pip' to have checked for that. > Besides, performance-oriented packages like the one mentioned could probably > benefit from newer instructions.
You should probably resend this to distutils-sig instead of python-ideas -- that's where discussions about python packaging happen. (Python-ideas is more for discussions about the language itself.) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
